Why would it be Tour Bite? The only website that ranks Tour Bite highly is String Forum and we know that their polling is ridiculously flawed, ie pollsters can rank down strings they've never even played with, or rank up one string even though they've never played with the other strings in the poll. It's all absurdly skewed.

Well, everyone knows what my poly of the year is since it's simply my favorite, so let's see...poly of 2012? This wasn't a huge year for strings aside from 4G. Nonetheless, since I discovered it only this year (personally I mean), I going to say Discho Iontec. Does absolutely everything well. Could be better in tension stability, but it's just phenomenal everywhere else.

I also give a nod to BHB7, but it just wasn't for me although I know of many who like it.

Why would it be Tour Bite? The only website that ranks Tour Bite highly is String Forum and we know that their polling is ridiculously flawed, ie pollsters can rank down strings they've never even played with, or rank up one string even though they've never played with the other strings in the poll. It's all absurdly skewed.

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And I suppose the RSI got it all skewed and flawed when they did their test, hey. Its only your view on it I suppose. Oh and Tennis Warehouse got it all wrong too.......?

And I suppose the RSI got it all skewed and flawed when they did their test, hey. Its only your view on it I suppose. Oh and Tennis Warehouse got it all wrong too.......?

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With all due respect, unless you understand how the website works, you really don't understand what you're talking about. Stringforum is about as impartial as Karl Rove on Fox News. As I said above, do not look there for outright string information, look there for what's trending at a given time.

Big Hitter Blue/Black/Silver get a lot of hype on these boards, but I never hear about from others or see people playing with them. I did like big hitter blue rough but it was pretty powerful and when the tension dropped a little bit is was just too much for me.

I had a chance to play with Luxilon 4G but I don't find it average. Am I stringing it at too high of a tension at 52lbs since I really don't understand how this string plays better than Ltec 4S, Signum Pro Poly Plasma, or Kirschbaum Pro Line Evolution.

With all due respect, unless you understand how the website works, you really don't understand what you're talking about. Stringforum is about as impartial as Karl Rove on Fox News. As I said above, do not look there for outright string information, look there for what's trending at a given time.

I had a chance to play with Luxilon 4G but I don't find it average. Am I stringing it at too high of a tension at 52lbs since I really don't understand how this string plays better than Ltec 4S, Signum Pro Poly Plasma, or Kirschbaum Pro Line Evolution.

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What are you looking for? I want control and tension maintenance. I have not used a better string for these things. I can generate my own spin.

If you check STRING FORUM based on TEST RESULTS rather than the POLLS (that is basically a popularity contest) you should find that these are the top rated polys based on actual performance (based on a sampling of 30 tests or more):

What are you looking for? I want control and tension maintenance. I have not used a better string for these things. I can generate my own spin.

Sppp did not last nearly as long.

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With all the hype surrounding 4G, I just didn't find it that great string in a full setup. I haven't had a chance to try 4G in a hybrid perhaps, in the spring, I will post my review. For tension maintenance and control, I prefer Ltec 4S and for power, I go with Pro Evolution.

Luxilon 4G isn't that great, the fact it retains it's tension better than other Luxilon strings doesn't mean much, it's more comfortable than other Luxilon, but also the spin help is worthless, it isn't anything special to me, I'd take Luxilon Original and Fluoro over 4G, I still take the Yonex Poly Tour Spin over all of these Luxilon strings, I would also take Yonex Poly Tour HS over any Luxilon.

Soon I'll be moving to multi or gut/poly if it gets really cold - below 50F with winds I can't use full poly.